dovecot - May 2007 - Timeout while waiting for shared lock for index file /var/mail/XXX/Maildir/dovecot.index

Hello,

I'm using dovecot v1.0rc23 for about 500 users since february with no 
particular problems. I'm using Maildir format and ldap authentication.
A recently added user can't check his mails any more. In the logs I get

May 23 14:35:58 mailsrv deliver(XXXX): [ID 702911 mail.error] Timeout 
while waiting for shared lock for index file 
/var/mail/XXXX/Maildir/dovecot.index

The user connects with IMAP to retreive his mails. Currently I can login 
to his account with pop3 and retreive the mails, but when it comes to 
IMAP I get this error and no mail at all.

thanks in advance,
-- 
giannis.

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:56 +0300, Giannis Zachariadis
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using dovecot v1.0rc23 for about 500 users since february with no 
> particular problems. I'm using Maildir format and ldap authentication.
> A recently added user can't check his mails any more. In the logs I get
> 
> May 23 14:35:58 mailsrv deliver(XXXX): [ID 702911 mail.error] Timeout 
> while waiting for shared lock for index file 
> /var/mail/XXXX/Maildir/dovecot.index
There were quite a lot of fixes done since rc23, so I think you should
try upgrading to v1.0. If that doesn't help, I can try to debug this
further.

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